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Perry S. Heath asks George B. Cortelyou for a picture of President Roosevelt to display in the office of the Salt Lake City Press Club. Heath wonders if the photograph could be framed. A handwritten note from Roosevelt on the bottom of the letter instructs to include the frame.
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1902-03-26
George B. Cortelyou returns a note and enclosures to police superintendent Richard Sylvester and responds. The writer of the letter in question left a package in the East Room that contained a flag, hammer, and tacks. In a further letter to Roosevelt, she explained that she left the flag because of difficulty in finding another way to deliver it.
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1901-12-04
President Roosevelt would be glad if Secretary of State Hay has a fund to pay for the cup. Roosevelt explains, “[I]t is rather hard to pay for gifts when the gifts given to one’s self in return go to the nation.”
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1904-12-16
President Roosevelt heartily thanks Yogoro Matsumoto for gifting him a sword by the famous sword-maker Munemitsu of Jakushu. He accepts it under the “Bushido” philosophy wherein, “the sword must never be drawn save with justice and never sheathed save with honor.” Roosevelt expresses his interest in the history of Japan, and feels that “the great civilized nations of the world can each teach and each can learn from the others.”
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1905-01-16
President Roosevelt was glad to receive Jacob A. Riis’s publication, The Peril and Preservation of the Home.
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1903-08-20
President Roosevelt thanks Jacob A. Riis for the New Year’s gift.
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1902-01-08
Mabel Helen Taft sends Theodore Roosevelt some postcards showing several scenes of the Charter Day Exercises at the University of California, and hopes that they are a pleasant souvenir of the event.
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1911-03-24
On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb acknowledges receiving Colonel Mann’s letter about the book Fads and Fancies. Roosevelt, however, cannot accept the book because, as Kate Phelan Hampton has stated, he did not authorize the use of his picture for the book, of which he was unaware. Loeb, then, must decline and return the book on the President’s behalf.
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1905-11-01
President Roosevelt thanks George Otto Trevelyan for the two volumes of the second part of the American Revolution.
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1903-11-06
President Roosevelt thanks M. Florence Locke for the flowers.
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1902-07-03
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George Cherrie for the gift.
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1918-01-18
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Mrs. S. D. Martin for the letter and gift.
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1912-10-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Horatio N. Warren for the pillow.
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1912-10-14
Theodore Roosevelt thanks H. G. Hilts & Company for the pair of gloves and appreciates the support of the progressive workmen.
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1912-10-02
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary acknowledges a gift of gloves sent by Messrs. H. G. Hilts & Co., Gloversville, New York.
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1912-09-09
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thank Mary Rebecca Foster Gilman for the translation of one of Colette Yver’s books.
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1912-09-05
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks N. N. Herjeu for the book he sent to Roosevelt.
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1912-09-05
Theodore Roosevelt thanks H. Schuyler Cammann for the calendar entitled “The Call of the Moose.”
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1912-08-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends Roosevelt’s thanks to James T. Giles for sending apples. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt also appreciates Giles’s thoughtfulness.
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1912-08-03
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mrs. R. R. Gathercole for the letter and gift of a Bible from Isaac Israel Hayes’ 1860 Expedition.
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1912-08-09